New coffee-table book from Reader’s Digest

New coffee-table book from Reader’s Digest

NEW YORK — Here’s a book sure to inspire some armchair travel, if not a real road trip: “Off the Beaten Path,” from Reader’s Digest, which lists more than 1,000 destinations in all 50 states.

The $30 coffee-table hardcover is organized by state and offers listings from the funky and obscure Barbed Wire Museum in LaCrosse, Kan., to a visit with native Alaskan Inupiats 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Other unusual tidbits include the Spam Museum in Austin, Minn.; a trip to Airy, N.C., the inspiration for Mayberry in “The Andy Griffith Show”; the Surfing Goat Dairy, an agritourism destination in Maui, Hawaii, and the annual Lilac Festival on Mackinac Island, Mich., June 5-14.

Museum spotlights ’Public Enemies’ era

OSHKOSH, Wis. — Crews from the forthcoming movie “Public Enemies” spent more than three weeks in Oshkosh a year ago doing setup and filming, drawing huge crowds hoping to glimpse the movie’s star Johnny Depp.

Now, the Oshkosh Public Museum plans to mark the film’s July 1 opening and educate visitors on Depression-era crime with an exhibit called “The Era of Public Enemies: A Wave of Crime in a Troubled Time.”

Artifacts will include the death mask of John Dillinger, the bank robber Depp portrays in the movie. Also included are a vintage Thompson submachine gun and an art deco back bar from a local yacht club.

The show runs June 27 through Oct. 18.

Associated Press